Fig. 3

Traumatic cervical prevertebral haematoma. This figure shows the cervical spine of a 55-year-old male patient using water-only images (a), in-phase images (b), and fat-only images (d) of the sagittal T2-weighted DIXON sequence, together with a sagittal T1-weighted sequence (c). The patient had suffered a traffic accident and shows a cervical prevertebral haematoma spanning from C1 to C5 (red asterisks)